Meng Chen

Explicit birational geometry of 3-folds of general type, I (2008)

We investigate birationality of the anti-pluricanonical map $\phi_{-m}$, the rational map defined by the anti-pluricanonical system $|-mK|$, on $\mathbb{Q}$-Fano threefolds.

Explicit birational geometry of 3-folds of general type, II (2008)

Let $V$ be a complex nonsingular projective 3-fold of general type. We prove $P_{12}(V):=\text{dim} H^0(V, 12K_V)>0$ and $P_{m_0}(V)>1$ for some positive integer $m_0\leq 24$. A direct consequence is...

TRPM8 mechanism of autonomic nerve response to cold in respiratory airway (2008)

Let $V$ be a complex nonsingular projective 3-fold of general type. We shall give a detailed classification up to baskets of singularities on a minimal model of $V$. We show that the $m$-canonical...

Xing, Hong, Ling, Jennifer X, Chen, Meng, Johnson, Richard D, Tominaga, Makoto, Wang, Cong-Yi, ...

Abstract Breathing cold air without proper temperature exchange can induce strong respiratory autonomic responses including cough, airway constriction and mucosal secretion, and can exacerbate...

Pluricanonical birationality on algebraic varieties of general type (2008)

ROBUST DISTRIBUTED MULTI-POINT VIDEO CONFERENCING OVER ERROR-PRONE CHANNELS (2008)

We introduce an effective way to compute an explicit function $h(n)$ such that the pluricanonical map $\Phi_{|mK|}$ is birational onto its image for all integers $m\geq h(n)$ and for all nonsingular...

Meng Chen, Guan-ming Su, Min Wu

In this paper, we propose a novel multi-point video conferencing system through error-prone channels, where the aggregation of multiple video streams and resource allocation are performed in a...

Multiple Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins Regulate Expression of the ENO1 Gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae* (2008)

Meng Chen, John M. Lopes

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The canonical volume of 3-folds of general type with {chi} (2008)

Mitochondrial DNA Content: Its Genetic Heritability and Association With Renal Cell Carcinoma (2008)

We prove that the canonical volume K3 ≥ 1/30 for all 3-folds of general type with χ(𝒪)≤0. This bound is sharp.

Xing, Jinliang, Chen, Meng, Wood, Christopher G., Lin, Jie, Spitz, Margaret R., Ma, Jianzhong, ...

Background The extent to which mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) content (also termed mtDNA copy number) in normal human cells is influenced by genetic factors has yet to be established. In addition, whether...

Robust filter design of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems and its applications (2008)

Chen, Meng (陳夢)

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The Development of an Appropriate Strategy Map : An application of strategy map theory on China Mobile (2008)

Zhao, Lei, Chen, Meng

After several years practice and research, companies and researchers have agreed thatmanagement of a company can not only rely on financial performance measures, butnon-financial measures should be...

An optimal boundedness on weak $\bQ$-Fano threefolds (2007)

Chen, Jungkai Alfred, Chen, Meng

Let $X$ be a terminal weak $\bQ$-Fano threefold. We prove that $P_{-6}(X)>0$ and $P_{-8}(X)>1$. We also prove that the anti-canonical volume has a universal lower bound $-K_X^3 \geq 1/330$. This...

This is page 1 Printer: Opaque this Was it a car or a cat I saw? An Analysis of Response Times for Word Recognition (2007)

Mario Peruggia, Trisha Van Zandt, Meng Chen

ABSTRACT We model the response times for word recognition collected in experimental trials conducted on four subjects. Because of the sequential nature of the experiment and the fact that several...

High-order interactions among genetic polymorphisms in nucleotide excision repair pathway genes and smoking in modulating bladder cancer risk (2007)

Chen, Meng, Kamat, Ashish M., Huang, Maosheng, Grossman, H.B., Dinney, Colin P., Lerner, Seth P., ...

Polymorphisms in nucleotide excision repair (NER) genes may cause variations in DNA repair capacity and increase susceptibility to bladder cancer through complex gene–gene and gene–smoking...

Error Resilience in Heterogeneous Visual Communications (2007)

Error Resilience in Heterogeneous Visual Communications (2007)

A critical and challenging aspect of visual communication technologies is to immunize visual information to transmission errors. In order to effectively protect visual content against transmission...

Explicit birational geometry of threefolds of general type (2007)

A critical and challenging aspect of visual communication technologies is to immunize visual information to transmission errors. In order to effectively protect visual content against transmission...

Inward currents induced by ischemia in rat spinal cord dorsal horn neurons (2007)

Let $V$ be a complex nonsingular projective 3-fold of general type. We prove $P_{12}(V)>0$ and $P_{24}(V)>1$ (which answers an open problem of J. Kollar and S. Mori). We also prove that the canonical...

Chen, Meng, Tao, Yuan-Xiang, Gu, Jianguo G

Abstract Hypoxia and ischemia occur in the spinal cord when blood vessels of the spinal cord are compressed under pathological conditions such as spinal stenosis, tumors, and traumatic spinal injury....

The canonical volume of threefolds of general type with $\chi (2007)

Characterization of the 4-canonical birationality of algebraic threefolds (2007)

We prove that the canonical volume $K^3\geq {1/30}$ for all projective 3-folds of general type with $\chi(\mathcal{O})\leq 0$. This bound is sharp.

Chen, Meng, Zhang, De-Qi

In this article we present a 3-dimensional analogue of a well-known theorem of E. Bombieri (in 1973) which characterizes the bi-canonical birationality of surfaces of general type. Let $X$ be a...

Coordination of gene expression by the Ino4p and Sgc1p, basic helix-loop-helix proteins, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (2007)

Carcinogenesis vol.28 no.10 pp.2160–2165, 2007 (2007)

The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) eukaryotic transcription factors have the ability to form multiple dimer combinations. This property together with the limited DNA-binding specificity to the E-box...

Meng Chen, Ashish M. Kamat, Maosheng Huang, H. B. Grossman, Colin P. Dinney, Seth P. Lerner, ...

doi:10.1093/carcin/bgm167

Projective 3-folds of general type with X=1 (2006)

Chen, Meng, Zhu, Lei

There are many examples of 3-folds of general type with $\chi(\mathcal {O})=1$ found by Iano-Fletcher and Reid about twenty years ago. Iano-Fletcher has ever proved $P_{12}(X)\ge 1$ and $P_{24}(X)\ge...

Complex projective threefolds with non-negative canonical Euler-Poincare characteristic (2006)

Chen, Meng, Zuo, Kang

Let $V$ be a complex nonsingular projective 3-fold of general type with $\chi(\omega_V)\geq 0$ (resp. $>0$). We prove that the m-canonical map $\Phi_{|mK_V|}$ is birational onto its image for all...

On the geography of Gorenstein minimal 3-folds of general type (2006)

Chen, Meng, Hacon, Christopher D.

Let $X$ be a minimal projective Gorenstein 3-fold of general type. We give two applications of an inequality between $\chi (\omega_X)$ and $p_g(X)$: 1) Assume that the canonical map $\Phi_{|K_X|}$ is...

Combined Expression Trait Correlations and Expression Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping (2006)

Hong Lan, Meng Chen, Jessica B. Flowers, Brian S. Yandell, Donnie S. Stapleton, Christine M. Mata, ...

Coordinated regulation of gene expression levels across a series of experimental conditions provides valuable information about the functions of correlated transcripts. The consideration of gene...

Genome-wide expression profiling reveals EBV-associated inhibition of MHC class I expression in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (2006)

Srikumar Sengupta, I-how Chen, Michael A. Newton, David B. Dahl, Meng Chen, ...

To identify the molecular mechanisms by which EBVassociated epithelial cancers are maintained, we measured the expression of essentially all human genes and all latent EBV genes in a collection of 31...

Classification-Based Spatial Error Concealment for Visual Communications (2006)

Meng Chen, Yefeng Zheng, Min Wu

In an error-prone transmission environment, error concealment is an effective technique to reconstruct the damaged visual content. Due to large variations of image characteristics, different...

The 5-canonical system on 3-folds of general type (2005)

Chen, Jungkai A., Chen, Meng, Zhang, De-Qi

Let $X$ be a projective minimal Gorenstein 3-fold of general type with canonical singularities. We prove that the 5-canonical map is birational onto its image.

Complex multiplication, rationality and mirror symmetry for abelian varieties (2005)

Combined Expression Trait Correlations and Expression Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping (2005)

We show that complex multiplication on abelian varieties is equivalent to the existence of a constant rational K\"ahler metric. We give a sufficient condition for a mirror of an abelian variety of...

Hong Lan, Meng Chen, Jessica B. Flowers, Brian S. Yandell, Donald S. Stapleton, Christine M. Mata, ...

Coordinated regulation of gene expression levels across a series of experimental conditions provides valuable information about the functions of correlated transcripts. The consideration of gene...

The Noether inequality for smooth minimal 3-folds (2005)

Catanese, Fabrizio, Chen, Meng, Zhang, De-Qi

Let X be a smooth projective minimal 3-fold of general type. We prove the sharp inequality K^3_X >= (2 /3)(2p_g(X) - 5), an analogue of the classical Noether inequality for algebraic surfaces of...

Substance P-driven feed-forward inhibitory activity in the mammalian spinal cord (2005)

Nakatsuka, Terumasa, Chen, Meng, Takeda, Daisuke, King, Christopher, Ling, Jennifer, Xing, Hong, ...

Abstract In mammals, somatosensory input activates feedback and feed-forward inhibitory circuits within the spinal cord dorsal horn to modulate sensory processing and thereby affecting sensory...

A Nonvanishing Theorem for Q-divisors (2005)

Chen, Jungkai Alfred, Chen, Meng, Zhang, De-Qi

We prove a non-vanishing theorem of the cohomology H^0 of the adjoint divisor K_X + L' where L' is the round up of a nef and big Q-divisor L.

A P2X receptor-mediated nociceptive afferent pathway to lamina I of the spinal cord (2005)

Chen, Meng, Gu, Jianguo G

Abstract Of the six lamina regions in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, lamina I is a major sensory region involved in nociceptive transmission under both physiological and pathological conditions....

A sharp lower bound for the canonical volume of 3-folds of general type (2004)

Minimal threefolds with small slope and the Noether inequality for canonically polarized threefolds (2003)

Let V be a smooth projective 3-fold of general type. Denote by $K^3$, a rational number, the self-intersection of the canonical sheaf of any minimal model of V. One defines $K^3$ as the canonical...

Parametric Empirical Bayes Methods for Microarrays (2003)

1) We give a 3-dimensional analogue of M. Noether's inequality for canonically polarized threefolds: $K^3\ge 2(2p_g-5)/3$. This inequality is sharp by known examples of M. Kobayashi. 2) Given a...

Christina Kendziorski, Deepayan Sarkar, Meng Chen, Michael Newton

Bicanonical and adjoint linear systems on surfaces of general type (2002)

Chen, Meng, Viehweg, Eckart

This note contains a new proof of a theorem of Gang Xiao saying that the bicanonical map of a surface S of general type is generically finite if and only if the second plurigenus of S is strictly...

Canonical stability of 3-folds of general type with $p_g\geq 3$ (2002)

Weak boundedness theorems for canonically fibered Gorenstein minimal threefolds (2002)

We study the canonical stability of a smooth projective 3-fold $V$ of general type. We prove that (1) $|5K_V|$ gives a birational map onto its image provided the geometric genus $p_g\geq 4$; (2)...

Inequalities of Noether type for 3-folds of general type (2001)

Let $X$ be a Gorenstein minimal projective 3-fold with at worst locally factorial terminal singularities. Suppose the canonical map is of fiber type. Denote by $F$ a smooth model of a generic...

On pluricanonical maps for threefolds of general type, II (2001)

If $X$ is a smooth complex projective 3-fold with ample canonical divisor $K$, then the inequality $K^3\ge {2/3}(2p_g-7)$ holds, where $p_g$ denotes the geometric genus. This inequality is nearly...

Canonical stability in terms of singularity index for algebraic threefolds (2000)

On canonically derived families of surfaces of general type over curves (2000)

Let X be a projective 3-fold with at most Q-factorial terminal singularities on which K_X is nef and big. Suppose the canonical index r(X)>1. For any positive integer m, it is interesting to consider...

Preanalytic variation in plasma amino acids. (1999)

Suppose X is a smooth projective 3-fold of general type and |mK_X| is composed of a pencil of surfaces with m>1. This pencil naturally induces a fibration f:X->C onto a smooth curve C after the...

On pluricanonical maps for threefolds of general type, II (1999)

Plasma amino acid analysis is important for diagnosis and treatment of inborn errors of metabolism, and increasingly for the evaluation of nutritional status and metabolic derangement of other...

On the Q-divisor method and its application (1999)

This note mainly studies the generic finiteness of \phi_m of a complex projective 3-fold of general type. A new result on the classification to bicanonical pencil for Gorenstein 3-folds is attached...

The relative pluricanonical stability for 3-folds of general type (1999)

For smooth projective 3-folds of general type, we prove that the relative canonical stability $\mu_s(3)\leq 8$. This is induced from our improved result of Koll\'ar: the m-canonical map of a smooth...

Complex varieties of general type whose canonical systems are composed with pencils (1999)

This paper aims to improve a theorem of Janos Kollar. For a given Complex projective threefold X of general type, suppose the plurigenus p_k(X)\ge 2, Kollar proved that the (11k+5)-canonical map is...

Kawamata-Viehweg vanishing and quint-canonical map of a Complex threefold (1999)

This paper aims to study canonical pencils of higher dimensional projective varieties. It seems that the geometric genus of the general fibre for the derived fibration from the canonical pencil for a...

Preanalytic variation in plasma amino acids /--by Meng Chen. (1999)

This paper proves that the 5-canonical map of a smooth minimal 3-fold is birational when the geometric genus is bigger than 2. A combination of the results in this paper and that of...

Biochemical characterization and positional cloning of the var2 variegation mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana /--by Meng Chen. (1999)

Thesis (M.S.)--Dept. of Pathology, University of Utah, 1999.

In vivo nuclear magnetic resonance studies on cerebral energy metabolism and age related isoflurane elimination from rat brain. (1994)

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In vivo nuclear magnetic resonance studies on cerebral energy metabolism and age related isoflurane elimination from rat brain. (1994)

In vivo nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was employed to study cerebral energy metabolism under hypoxia, cerebral blood flow (CBF), and isoflurane elimination kinetics as a function of age in rat...

In vivo nuclear magnetic resonance studies on cerebral energy metabolism and age related isoflurane elimination from rat brain /--by Meng Chen. (1994)

In vivo nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was employed to study cerebral energy metabolism under hypoxia, cerebral blood flow (CBF), and isoflurane elimination kinetics as a function of age in rat...

Structure and function studies of porcine liver fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase /--by Meng Chen. (1994)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah, 1994.

The characteristics of arterial smooth muscle plasma membrane in atherosclerosis /--Meng Chen. (1993)

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